From the US space agency they detailed that The telescope’s infrared capabilities allow it to look back in time and even reach the Big Bangthe event that occurred 13.8 billion years ago that science classifies as the “initial explosion” that created the universe in which we live.
As explained Nelson during a press conference of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimorebecause the universe expands, the light from the first stars changes from ultraviolet wavelengths to longer ones that correspond to the infrared wavelengths that Webb it has the ability to detect in unprecedented resolution.
The astronomers who are working with Webbbelieve that this artifact will be able to easily exceed the limit up to which humanity could now observe. “This is as far away as humanity has ever seen,” Nelson explained.
Other Recent NASA Advances
A few days ago, the US agency announced that it will finance the development of small robots, called “mini swimmers“, who will have the mission of investigate the subterranean oceans of other worlds to, in this way, increase the possibility of detecting life on other worlds.
A key innovation of these devices is that they would be much smaller than other ocean exploration robots created. They would be the size of a cell phone and would be packed into a narrow ice-melting probe. It would tunnel through the frozen crust and the tiny robots would be released underwater, swimming away to study the subsurface aquatic environment.